Lanphier High School - Lan Hi Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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LIBRARY Our school lrbrary has grown very rap rdly durrnq the past year and 1t now co tarns more than tour thousand volumes wt trctron and reference rnaterlal A great deal ot trrne has been spent n cataloqlnq and classrtyrnq the books 11'1 the hbrary ana consrderable progress has been rnade rn thrs work The a1rn of the lrbrary IS to provrde sup plementary rnatenals needed by the studen IH the preparatlorr ot h1s work and more and more students have corne to realrze th qreat value of the school lrbrary tor ths purpose Atmosphere IS nrarntamed for those who wrsh to prepare outsrde work trom the refer ence rnaterral avarlable There are at lea t three vacant tables each perrod where stu dents from other classes rnay srt and study As always there are student assrstahts to help wrtn the work rn the lrbrary but they are not orqarnzed rnto a club as they have been 1n prevrous years Good sportsrnansmp has always been shown by students studyrnq or workrnq the lrbrary Let us strrve to rnarntam th1s qood sportsrnanshrp and to make our lrbrary the center ot the true Lanphter sprrrt S V? Fx SIY W 1 - r ,Ni V - 1 , ' ti- ' ' - L, ' ' . . s , A , , . I . , . 1 , I K ' , A ' in l ' e ' . ' ' ' ' l. TllCfYl'ln All M. Thru her If :rg :ret G 111,11 rl. , Z X 3 , , ,.,- 2 f g' ' 'Jer1 ,'- ' . ' A

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ENGLISH Because the VVISC usp le sure t1me rs very lmportant and an acqu nntance Wllll many wr1ters IS des1red the Enqhsh depa t ment IS requlrmq a larqer amount ot llbrdrv readma A permanent record wrth the read ma ot each semester IS comptled through the three years ot Enqlrsn Thrs presents mor than a record of reqtt ed work rt IQ a con crete prcture of the type of hteratur a student has read The type ot stones he Joys the qual1t1es ot hrs heroes or hero1nes th t1on broqraphy or mus1c are olamly 1nd cated lt ne has no mtercst that IS 1n the prcture also lt IS proof ot hrs growth and development throuqh the three years lt 1n dl ates how well ne responded to the qurd ance ot teachers by the aareement wtth books recommended The Enqnsh class lcoks lorward to en f1Cli11'1Q the proqram To b a cr1t1cal lndf pendent thmker 1S IN ttselt an accomphsh ment each well tratned hlah school student rn a democracy should be able to do Th movre the rado th newspaper are all a part ot our culture blow qood they are or how bad on the followers these are some ot the problems the nqhsh department wrll attempt to co ordmate rn 1ts plans Our work as compared to what we should t1on ouaqestrons tor future plans may be made As a result of the extenswe testrna proaram a t1le ts kept IH the ott1ce whtch has 11 Drmatron reaardmq the type ot work each student rn Lanph1er snould be able to do Thrs 15 helpful to the deans and classroom 1nstru tors rn plannrnq future work n er Pt ss lFc 1 r Mane Freund . . A 5 1. ' 1 . '- w . , - ' . T ' . ' , 1 , Q V 1 . V O . A 1 I V , A '., f 7 . . 9 h E . . ' ' ' ' , e tn- terests he has whether it be science, invene be able to do may be brouaht to our atten- , . . . . L , C. . - ' ' ' C- Natha I ala U 9 v 15 ' f ' f'.-zenty-f:'.'e

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XOV M S'-1 I tif --dw-. ?-0' i4 INDUSTRIAL ARTS ln the past few years the qeneral accept ance of thts relatlvely new subJect has been lncreased by two fundamental factors Func tronal areas of work llke tndustrtal arts have been planned to meet the needs of many who have no tnterest IH the trad1t1onal sub Jects lndustrlal arts has been advocated by mcreasma numbers as a practrcal approach to a better understandmq and apprecratton of the socraleconomtc problems of a com plex tndustrral soctety lndustrlal arts provxdes a means whereby boys and qrrls may develop an ab1l1ty to express themselves throuah constructlon Any act1v1ty 1n order to be successful must beam wtth the natural mterests of chtldren The f1rst mampulatlons of tools and ma terrals by puprls may result rn products that are meanmqless to adults but they have ac uuarnted chtldren w1th funaamental facts and have qrven them an opportumty to ex press themselves throuqh constructron whlch are two 1mportant steps on the road to qrowth EXDIGSSIOH through constructton means more than mampulatrve skrlls It means chlldren must do much of thelr own thtnkmq and tn the ma1or1ty of cases they w1ll rf placed 1n natural srtuatrons whrch challenge the1r natural mterests lt IS self act1v1ty that makes the experrence carry meanmqs over to other exp rrences The expertence of self act1v1ty may well lead over tnto the freld of exp rrmentatlon Lee V- Go y Frank Slefferrfttrn ll rry Mor an Ar rur B McCall 'l'.'.'enjf-s -'Jen